Show r AUDUBON SOCIETY ASKS FOR MANY THOUSANDS I I I New Reservations Set Aside b by y President Increases Expenses William Dutcher president of or tit the tiui u National Association 4 of Audubon t societies has announced tho the acquisition l lion tion of new reservations for the time protection pro lection of sea sen birds authorized II b by Y President Roosevelt and appealed t to o the time public for 01 to enable tim the e association to continue its work Theris There Ther e Is a deficit of or In the treasury and unless the public at once cometo comes come s to tho the rescue ho said the work wont wor of at tim the thea e a association must stop Mr oIl Dutcher said that recently a member of or tho the association a made an expensive o exploration along along- the time coast const of the state of or Washington 1 and found a l. l large number of islands where here thousands thousand thousands thou thou- sands sand of birds were breeding These were barren rocky and of up value and hull hud been for 01 years ears the resort of sea birds An appeal was made to President ent Roosevelt Roose and he mado a reservation of or three Islands on tho the Washington i coast and of or a group rou of rocks on theOre time the Ore Oregon on coast coC which the a assoc association had been protecting not knowing t belonged ell to the thc federal government President Roosevelt made mado ma o two more mOl reservations recently on the tho cast coast of ot Florida one taking taking- In iii the entire entire en en- tire lire Tortugas as group of Islands w wA A representative c of tho the association made a search recently in Southeastern Southeast Southeast- ern Oregon and Northern California for land for birds and discovered several sev sev- or-al or lakes with many birds breeding It Il is hoped loped to have some of these Lakes set t aside soon as breeding homes for or 4 birds birds ili er livery Lm cry new reservation refer that we get said Mr Dutcher entails upon the association a largo large additional expense ex ex- pense for men to tu guard it Tho The amount of oC mono money we Yo have to pay out omit lIl now for wardens boats and supplies Is making serious Inroads In our treas treas- ury Moreover l this work Is not for forone forone or orone one year oar only onh but for tor year ear after year and und for that reason renson we wo need more members to pa pay 5 6 each annually t. t to help along our work We c have a membership of 1200 l. l OO and und should havo have thou thousands mote more |